ENVIRONMENT AGENCY

ENVIRONMENT AGENCY
Water Resources Act 1991 (as amended by the Water Act 2003) Notice of application for a full licence to abstract (take) water.
Moorhouse Farms Limited has applied to the Environment Agency for a licence. The Environment Agency is giving notice of this application in accordance with Section 37 of the Water Resources Act 1991 and Regulation 6 of the Water Resources (Abstraction and Impounding) Regulations 2006.
The application is for a full licence to abstract water from underground strata (Inferior Oolite) at Ermin Way Farm, Ermin Way, Stratton, Cirencester, Gloucestershire at National Grid Reference SP 00649 05124. The application is to abstract water as follows: For the purpose of direct spray irrigation:
- 40 cubic metres an hour
- 480 cubic metres a day
- 15,756 cubic metres a year
At an instantaneous rate not exceeding 11 litres per second.
For the purpose of drinking water for livestock:
- 40 cubic metres an hour
- 60 cubic metres a day
- 600 cubic metres a year

At an instantaneous rate not exceeding 11 litres per second.
Between April and September inclusive in each year Abstraction will be via a borehole 123 metres in depth. You can see the application and documents submitted with it at the Environment Agency: Red Kite House, West Area Office, Howbery Park, Crowmarsh Gifford, Wallingford, Oxon, OX10 8BD during normal office hours (Monday to Friday, except bank holidays). You can see a summary of the application from the Public Register at the above address during normal office hours.
Send any representation about this application in writing, quoting the name of the applicant and Reference Number NPS/WR/016115 to the Environment Agency, at Permitting and Support Centre, Water Resources Team, Quadrant 2, 99 Parkway Avenue, Sheffield, S9 4WF or by email to PSC-WaterResources@environment-agency.gov.uk by 23 March 2017.
For advice about how to make a representation call
03708 506 506.
Date: 23 February 2017